Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.26-rc1, released on May 3. "So this merge window was somewhat rocky in the sense that there was a lot of arguments about it, but at the same time I at least personally think that from a technical angle, we had somewhat less scary stuff going on than has been almost the rule lately." At about 7500 commits, this cycle has fewer changes than the last couple have; a lot of the changes are infrastructural, so there will be fewer obvious new features with 2.6.26 than with some of its predecessors. See the short-form changelog for details, or the full changelog for lots of details.

A relatively slow stream of patches has been heading into the mainline git repository since the -rc1 release.

The current stable 2.6 release is 2.6.25.2, released on May 6. This release contains a single fix for a locally-exploitable security problem in the filesystem locks code. 2.6.24.7 and 2.4.36.4 were also released with this fix.

Previously, 2.6.25.1 and 2.6.24.6 had been released with a larger set of fixes. In the absence of another security issue, there will probably not be any more 2.6.24 stable updates.

---

(Log in to post comments)